London Medici Society 1930 First Edition, Second Impression Hard Cover Near FIne Very Good Jacket Very clean decorated paper covered boards with blue cloth spine, clean unchipped labels on cover and spine. Hint of fading at top and bottom of spine edge. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or marks. Clean scarce DUSTJACKET is not price clipped, front and rear panel and flaps in excellent shape, some pieces of spine are missing. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A delightful collection of prose and verse in praise of dogs. 12mo. Dogs. 013317

New York Boni & Liveright 1926 First Edition, Second Printing Hard Cover Very Good No Dustjacket Jacket Illustrated Clean light brown cloth boards with gold lettering on spine and gold lettering and title box on cover. Spine slightly faded. No surface wear or bumping. Small previous owner's name/date neatly penned on front free endpaper. Pages are clean and bright; no writing or marks. Illustrated with many beautiful portraits. 288 pgs. 014676

The Glass of Fashion - Some Social ReflectionsA Gentleman with A DusterNew York G. P. Putnam's Sons 1921 First Edition, First Printing Hardcover Very Good No Dust jacket First Edition. Green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Very light soiling, small spot of wear-through to one corner tip. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. Frontispiece illustration with tissue guard. Many additional illustrations. 176 pages. 024088

TenderloinAdams, Samuel HopkinsNew York Random House 1959 Stated First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good Jacket Yellow cloth boards with black title box, gold letteirng on spine. Very slight fading to spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or marks. 372 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has chips at spine edges, 4" closed tear along front spine fold. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. New York City. 008926

The Big City, or the New MayhewAtkinson, Alex and Ronald SearleNew York George Braziller, Inc. 1959 First Edition Hardcover Fine Near Fine Jacket Ronald Searle, Illustrator First Edition in clean original dust jacket. Clean blue paper covered boards with black lettering on cover, clean unfaded black cloth spine with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Wonderful illustrations by Ronald Searle. 111 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, a few very tiny closed edge tears, small price clip on front inside flap at lower corner. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. What REALLY goes on in the big city. 024230

The Glitter and the Gold - An AutobiographyBalsan, Consuelo Vanderbilt (formerly Duchess of Marlborough)New York Harper & Brothers 1952 Stated First Edition Hardcover Very Good Very Good Jacket Stated First Edition in original dust jacket. Clean blue boards with black cloth spine, gold title box on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with photographs. 336 pages with index. Dust jacket is not price clipped (4.00 on front inside flap), has edge wear, closed tears, small chips, light soiling to rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Intimately, wittily, and with disenchanted affection, the author writes of New York society and of its personalities in the eighteen-eighties and nineties, the golden years of the original "400." As well as a biography, this is an important social history of the Victorian Age and the decline and fall of European society. 025561

Humphrey BogartBenchley, NathanielBoston Little, Brown 1975 0316088862 / 9780316088862 First Edition, Second Printing Hardcover Fine Very Good+ Jacket Second printing in dust jacket. Very clean black boards with black cloth spine; bright silver lettering on cover, red metallic lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright with clean red endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with stunning photographs and movie stills. 242 pages. Photographic dust jacket is not price clipped; very slight edge wear. enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. An affectionate, funny, always perceptive portrait of the society blue blood who played tough men with more style and panache than any other actor in Hollywood, before or since. 023773

DebutBiddle, LivingstonNew York Julian Messner 1952 First Edition Hard Cover Near FIne Very Good+ Jacket SignedClean blue cloth boards with red cloth spine, black title box on spine. No bumping or wear, slightest hint of browning to board edges. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Inscribed and SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front free endpaper. 378 pgs. Clean bright DUSTJACKET is not price clipped, unfaded, with a few tiny shallow chips and very short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A romance novel of debut society in Philadelphia during World War II. 013863

Friday Night Lights - A Town, a Team, and a DreamBissinger, H. G.Addison Wesley Publishing Co. 1990 0201196778 / 9780201196771 Stated First printing Hardcover Fine Near Fine Jacket First Edition, First Printing ("First Printing, July 1990" with letter line beginning with "A"). Clean unfaded black cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 357 pgs. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, no tears; mere hint of light surface rubbing. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Book documents the coach and players of a high school football team of Odessa, Texas and the town's obsession with the game. Made into a film in 2004 and a television series which premiered in 2006. 018507

Boswell on the Grand Tour - Italy, Corsica, and France 1765-1766Boswell, James (Edited by Frank Brady & Frederick A. Pottle)New York McGraw-Hill 1955 Stated First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ Very Good+ Jacket Stated First Edition in clean original unclipped dust jacket. Clean blue boards with dark blue cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. Tiny points of wear at bottom corner tips. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean map-illustrated endpapers. Very small previous owner name neatly penned at top edge of front free endpaper. Illustrated. 356 pages with index. Clean bright dust jacket (designed by Warren Chappell) is not price clipped (5.50 on front inside flap), has very shallow chipping at top spine edge, a few very short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Sex, Religion and Politics - the three subjects of conversation forbidden in polite society - are James Boswell's main concerns in this fifth volume of the Boswell papers, which concludes his lively account of his European travels. 025090

A Few Brass TacksBromfield, LouisNew York/ London Harper & Brothers 1946 Stated First Edition Hard Cover Very Good+ Very Good+ Jacket Stated First Edition in unclipped jacket. Black cloth boards with gold title box on spine. No bumping or wear. Faintest hint of light soiling. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 303 pgs. Unchipped dustjacket is not price clipped, with just a hint of slightest edge wear and very slight soiling, one 1/4" closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Louis Bromfield, Pulitzer Prize winning author, on some answers to the political, economic and social problems of America and the world. 8vo. Essays. 015617

Black Ship to HellBrophy, BrigidNew York Harcourt Brace & World 1962 Stated First American Edition Hardcover Near Fine Very Good+ Jacket "First American Edition" stated on copyright page. Clean unfaded blue-black cloth boards with unchipped gold lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 492 pgs. with index. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, with slightest hint of edge wear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A book which analyzes the origins, history, and manifestations of the destructive impulse that exists in human beings. 018509

No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and SocietyBrown, Richard MaxwellU.S.A. Oxford University Press 1991 0195045106 / 9780195045109 First Edition, First Printing Hardcover Near Fine Near Fine Jacket SignedFirst Edition, First Printing, in clean unclipped dust jacket, SIGNED by author. Clean black boards with black cloth spine, unchipped metallic lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Signed by author on front free endpaper: "For John Baldwin, Always my Best, Dick Brown - April 16, 1992." 268 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. An engrossing account of the idea of self-defense emerged, focusing in particular on the gunfights of the American frontier and their impact on our legal traditions. 024171

The Emperor of Ocean ParkCarter, Stephen LNew York Alfred A. Knopf 2002 0375413634 / 9780375413636 Stated First Edition Hardback Very Good+ Fine Jacket Signed"First Edition" stated on copyright page, SIGNED by author, in clean original unclipped jacket. Clean red boards with black spine, bright silver lettering on spine. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Very slight surface wear to board edges, no bumping. Clean endpapers; no previous owner markings. Briefly inscribed and signed, dated by author on title page. 657 pp. Clean unfaded jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Author's photo on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Sign first edition of author's fiction debut which won high acclaim from the critics. The book is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the Eastern seaboard and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school. It tells the story of a complex family with a single, seductive link to the shadowlands of crime. 019521

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